From 24f1978412093332bebe24522aa5b6102bad6eae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Kennell Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 11:27:59 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Introduce frontmatter in step 2 (#7704) Merge pull request 7704 --- docs/_docs/step-by-step/02-liquid.md | 16 +++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/_docs/step-by-step/02-liquid.md b/docs/_docs/step-by-step/02-liquid.md index 1c3ad02c..5de70a28 100644 --- a/docs/_docs/step-by-step/02-liquid.md +++ b/docs/_docs/step-by-step/02-liquid.md @@ -66,9 +66,19 @@ Now it's your turn, change the Hello World! on your page to output as lowercase: ``` {% endraw %} -It may not seem like it now, but much of Jekyll's power comes from combining -Liquid with other features. +To get our changes processed by Jekyll we need to add [front matter](03-front-matter/) to the top of the page: -In order to see the changes from `downcase` Liquid filter, we will need to add front matter. +```markdown +--- +# front matter tells Jekyll to process Liquid +--- +``` + +Our "Hello World!" will now be downcased on render. + +It may not seem like it now, but much of Jekyll's power comes from combining +Liquid with other features. + +In order to see the changes from `downcase` Liquid filter, we will need to add front matter. That's next. Let's keep going.